Start10 1.7 & Win7 Style

Under Style->Configure option to 'Show User Picture' is greyed out

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I can no longer use Start10's Style->Configuration-> Show User Picture to show up as a usable option- it is greyed out. It seems that all possible choices in Start10 Settings (Window's Style Start menus: Win7, Modern, & Win10 styles now have the same greying-out of the Show User Picture option; I tried playing w/all of them...

I noticed this greying-out of that option because with a newer version of Windows 10 Home - v1809 (had a problem w/ver. 1803 & I got ver. 1809 fm MicroSoft to fix a problem I had. The upgrade fixed the other problem). I noted there was a very nice new feature in the Start menu: to have the image change from the User Picture being displayed to the image of the Windows system app which was being hilighted in the Start menu being displayed (it worked in Start10 on Win10 v1809 previously, my pic turned into a widget when I went into Control Panel when hilighting CP in Start10) & I thought it was because I upgraded to WindowBlinds10. However, I made a per-application total exclusion of WB for the Start10.exe - but it didn't help.

I don't know what would cause the Start10 Style->Configuration-Show User Picture option to get greyed-out; & I'd like to get it back.

Any help appreciated.

 

Eli

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

I stumbled on the answer myself; only to find another problem. The windowblind skin I was using caused the problem; likely b/c it is an old wb skin. I returned to the default wb skin & everything in the Start10 menu worked.

 

HOWEVER, there is another problem: I used a complete per-app exception on Start10 & even restarted my machine & it didn't prevent WindowBlinds from skinning Start10.... 

 

Guess I'll have to post in the WB section of this forum. If somebody in this section knows the answer; please feel free to let me know...

 

 

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

If you are using WB with Start10. I believe "The User Picture" is control by the WB theme you applied them. Some WB theme enable it, some WB theme hide it. You can unhide it using Skinstudio and edit that WB theme. Please refer to screenshot below. Make sure to save and apply.

Quoting eaw748, reply 1

HOWEVER, there is another problem: I used a complete per-app exception on Start10 & even restarted my machine & it didn't prevent WindowBlinds from skinning Start10.... 
End of eaw748's quote

You can set WB to use different theme for Startmenu and taskbar. Please refer to screenshot below : 

Thank you,

 

Basj,

Stardock Community Assistant

Curtains - Customize Windows with additional styles
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Basj, thanks so much ! I'm technically oriented; but never got into programming & skin studio seemed a bit over my head. Your answer & step by step explanation with screenshots encourage me to tackle this - especially because I really liked the skin I was using & it seemed it was too old to work with WB10, but now I see how & where to fix the issue. Without tutorials I'd never thought to try this; but you made it "cookie cutter" easy. Thanks again. Maybe I can extend my reach; with your assist I can picture how things work with skin studio.

 

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Basj, thanks so much ! I'm technically oriented; but never got into programming & skin studio seemed a bit over my head. Your answer & step by step explanation with screenshots encourage me to tackle this - especially because I really liked the skin I was using & it seemed it was too old to work with WB10, but now I see how & where to fix the issue. Without tutorials I'd never thought to try this; but you made it "cookie cutter" easy. Thanks again. Maybe I can extend my reach; with your assist I can start to picture how things work with skin studio.

 

 

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

You cannot exclude start10 as it runs as part of explorer.exe.